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Bug #4580
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/usr/bin/grep can't handle multibyte characters
Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Start date:
2014-02-06
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
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Description
Grep doesn't work correctly with non-english text.
For example, I can't grep for cyrillic "а" character.
$ cat ~/tmp/test абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ $ /usr/bin/grep -i а ~/tmp/test grep: RE error 67: Illegal byte sequence
Updated by Yuri Pankov almost 10 years ago
Sounds like yet another reason to make /usr/xpg4/bin/grep the default one:
$ /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -i абвгде greptest абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ $
Updated by Yuri Pankov over 9 years ago
- Subject changed from grep doesn't work correctly with non-english text to /usr/bin/grep can't handle multibyte characters
Updated by Garrett D'Amore over 9 years ago
Agreed. However, note that xpg4 grep uses extended regexes rather than simple ones. This may break some people. We should discuss.
Updated by Electric Monk almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit d2d52addd50254d1b7c318c6784172d8d7de20c6
commit d2d52addd50254d1b7c318c6784172d8d7de20c6
Author: Alexander Pyhalov <apyhalov@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-01-09T19:12:32.000Z
8858 /usr/bin/grep doesn't support -E option
4580 /usr/bin/grep can't handle multibyte characters
8929 8868 tests are not delivered with system/test/utiltest
8860 Example in grep(1) is incorrect
Reviewed by: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@gmx.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
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